These commissionswere interrupted firstby Moulthrop«s thriving waxworks
business and then by about of®tipus fever, ̄ which left the artist too weak to work
. Someinteresting facts emerge from this period: ittook Moulthrop seven
weekstopaint ...

The other parts of the above description clearly demonstrate the genus to be the
Rheum or Rhubarb, and sufficiently distinguish it from the Laurus, Tipus, Call'yta,
and Butomus, Jhe only pther genera belonging to this class. The Specific mark ...